Let's Win the New Yorker Caption Contest

"TOUCHDOWWWWWN!"

"Yes I know that sports is essentially 'aggression with rules'! Why do you have to psychoanalyse everything?!"

"Oh, there we go, Mister Superego. Did we miss something?"

"This cartoon sucks thiiiiiiiis much"

"Flacco you bum! Over here! I'm wide open!"

IDG why those guys are drawn so close to the television. Contributes to my theory as the caption contest being a dumping ground for reject cartoons.

I totally believe that theory. I'd love to see if the original captions were any funnier than the winning entries.

awful cartoon, not a single decent possible entry (borne out so far, sad to say)

who stole our chess line this time round btw

snoball's one is OK.

with respect sir, it is not.

but we cannot be blamed for it, the cartoon is a wreck

darrghmac, simon cowell of the humourous caption game

I see him waving one hand at the cartoonist who is backstage..

i've stormed off in disgust at the standard, as three cameramen and a makeup artist valiantly try to keep up

ok

"Why do we always have to have these sessions during the game?"

"Theess men you see, vot are they doink now?

"I bet all those real men over there have penises THIS long but you don't because you are a bookish man without any love of football nor beer."

chrisht this is a poor cartoon

Is it only the football team that gives you these feelings of jealousy or do you think your husband enjoys other types of jets with his friends?

"Theess men you see, vot are they doink now?

I like this one if it's the woman speaking.

"I've heard of having art in a therapist's office, but that cardboard cutout of three men watching television is just distracting!"

"When I said that the English football team needed their heads examined, this isn't what I had in mind!"

"This happens every time The Wiggles are on!"

"I don't feel that this is appropriate"

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• "Who has the floor?"
• "Why not? We defy every other law."
• "Good, very good. Now let's all try to think it back into the box."

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"They still look nothing like your cave paintings"

"We might need glasses."

"I think we accidentally wandered into XKCD."

"are they supposed to be deer?"

"Installation art is such tripe."

"Don't worry, the real deer are still on my laptop"

"We'll need at least four to complete our Tetris set."

"Try for a clean shot or we'll get a wrecked angle"

"this triangulation method is working like a charm"

"they'll cgi in the real deer in post and - voila - paleolithic park"

"We all start off with rectangles -- with time you'll move on to more complex polygons and before you know it you'll be skinning hypercubes with Grogh."

"I miss skeuomorphism."

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• "I'd like to try group therapy with a different group."
• "I don't need therapy—I just need the remote!"
• "This is why I didn't want a Monday-night appointment!"

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"Bang! Bang! Bang! heh....heh...Bang!"

"Skype-ing again, huh? I remember when we had to make trunk calls"

"This room ain't big enough for the both of us."

"Look at my walking stick"

"I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!"

"there are still two important issues we're afraid to mention here!"

Dammit beaten to that one

"For fucks sake Jonathan will you ever stop writing WALSH on the carpet?"

"All this time and I never thought to lie down."